Out-of-context links

January 11, 2006 8:03 AM

hay uh what?
posted by rxrfrx to MetaFilter-Related at 8:03 AM (39 comments total)

I removed the two MACBOOK PRO links from threads where they didn't belong. Is it Macworld time again?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:06 AM on January 11, 2006

I'm really surprised there hasn't been an FPP yet. I'm not saying there should (or shouldn't) be one, but it seems like all the Apple fanboys are sleeping in today.
posted by Plutor at 8:08 AM on January 11, 2006

MACs suck. Only lamers who think they are being cool use that crap.
posted by caddis at 8:15 AM on January 11, 2006

heh heh heh. keynote-related hard-ons abound.
posted by phaedon at 8:17 AM on January 11, 2006

You didn't get them all. At this rate you will be chasing The Jesse Helms all over the site.
posted by caddis at 8:17 AM on January 11, 2006

Yeah, for fuck's sake, just ban his ass already.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:24 AM on January 11, 2006

I agree with mr_crash_davis.
posted by languagehat at 8:34 AM on January 11, 2006

i still don't get it.
posted by rxrfrx at 8:39 AM on January 11, 2006

Is that what they marketing boys call an assroots campaign?
posted by nkyad at 8:55 AM on January 11, 2006

Give us a break, Jesse. Save it for Digg.
posted by JeffK at 9:02 AM on January 11, 2006

i think it's funny.
posted by keswick at 9:02 AM on January 11, 2006

I removed the ones pointed out here, and gave him a time out. Email me when you're sober The Jesse Helms and we'll talk!
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:04 AM on January 11, 2006

Poor kid. The psychedelicious Web 1.1 <hr> thingie must've gone to his head.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:12 AM on January 11, 2006

Interesting. Once the links have been removed, this makes no sense whatsoever.
posted by nevercalm at 9:45 AM on January 11, 2006

It never did.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:46 AM on January 11, 2006

If a comment is removed before the cabal can read it, does it make a snark?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:54 AM on January 11, 2006

There is no cabal.
posted by cortex at 10:03 AM on January 11, 2006

There is no cortex.
posted by OmieWise at 10:22 AM on January 11, 2006

The true Mefite will have "gotten" it. Oh, and Matt has new clothes.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:27 AM on January 11, 2006

i am the one true mefite, and i find little more annoying than links to comments that no longer exist. but, ya know, that's just me.
posted by quonsar at 10:43 AM on January 11, 2006

Sorry if linking to Apple made a couple of users hysterical, I overlooked the Macworld thread yesterday.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 11:21 AM on January 11, 2006

Shortest timeout evarr...
posted by erebora at 11:22 AM on January 11, 2006

There were formerly some comments in various threads that said nothing more than "MACBOOK PRO" and linking to this website. I actually thought it was pretty funny, although I can't explain why.
posted by brain_drain at 11:23 AM on January 11, 2006

cram it, kevin.
posted by crunchland at 11:42 AM on January 11, 2006

Funny randomness being a better explanation of misplaced out-of-context links than overlooking the thread.
posted by cortex at 11:43 AM on January 11, 2006

Sweet, the new Macs are out.
posted by stet at 12:45 PM on January 11, 2006

They do look sweet.
posted by caddis at 12:59 PM on January 11, 2006

KNIFEBUTT PRO
posted by cortex at 2:16 PM on January 11, 2006

They do look sweet.

You're not supposed to eat them, caddis.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 2:28 PM on January 11, 2006

eh, I wouldn't give three pennies for that knife.
posted by crunchland at 2:29 PM on January 11, 2006

It is pearly white, though.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:46 PM on January 11, 2006

That's cuz you're too busy cleaning viruses off your tool of choice!
posted by stet at 4:47 PM on January 11, 2006

Uh, that was directed at crunchland.
posted by stet at 4:48 PM on January 11, 2006

crunchland was refering to Three Penny Opera.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:50 PM on January 11, 2006

Or referring, maybe.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:52 PM on January 11, 2006

Damn. Does that make me less clever?
posted by stet at 4:56 PM on January 11, 2006

Naw. You can't be less clever.
posted by crunchland at 4:58 PM on January 11, 2006

That's what I figured. Can I flame out now?
posted by stet at 5:01 PM on January 11, 2006

Might make you less cleaver.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 6:37 PM on January 11, 2006